13 questions to find out if you are ready to hire a mobile development team

If you decide to create a mobile application, decide on its purpose and are looking for a team that can implement your product, do not forget to prepare the answers to the questions described below. Most likely, your contractor will ask them or offer to discuss solutions on them.



Questions:

1. Do you want an application on one platform or two / three at once? (IOS / Android / Windows). It should be borne in mind that the development on Android, as a rule, will take more time and more resources (approximately 20%), since on Android there are more different screen extensions and different OS versions that are currently used. If the budget is limited, what would you like to release first?
2. Are you planning to run your application on an iPad or tablet or watch? If so, it will also increase the time for development and testing.
3. What do you think, how many users will the application have in the coming year / three / 5 years?
4. What do you plan to do to increase the number of users? What are marketing strategies / steps? Perhaps a video clip, promo website, pages in social networks? Who will process data streams of information from these services? (Note. To publish to the Appstore, either the app's promotional website or a page on a social network, for example, FB, is charming)
5. Your application should work without the Internet?
6. Do you plan to monetize your application? Make it paid, make money on advertising inside, make a paid and free version, sell something inside the application?
7. Do you plan to do content filling (text, pictures, sounds ...) on your own or entrust this question to professionals?
8. Do you plan to include in the development team also a testing specialist who can fully test the operation of the product? (full testing, stress testing, load testing ...)?
9. Do you plan to check how the idea works and improve your product with the help of a focus group from your target audience?
10. Do you plan to connect analytics to the application in order to study user behavior, collect indicators? Do you plan to involve a marketer to process data on this analytics?
11. Will your application be in several languages ​​in different countries? If so, do you plan to translate the content yourself in the app and in the market, or will you need help?
12. Do you remember that to publish an application you will need to create accounts (for example, Google, Apple)? If your application will use the server side, you will need to purchase and configure hosting, will you need help in this matter?
13. How do you want to interact with a team of artists? What kind of reporting to get? Do you want to follow the progress in real time (for example, using Agile Boards) or just participate in demonstrations once every 2-3 weeks?

If you contact a software development company with answers to these questions, you will be able to get time and budget estimates much faster and more accurately . In addition, you will already represent who you need in the team for the implementation of your plans.
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PS I would be glad to hear recommendations from developers and project teams, how to expand this list!